LITERATURE (GENERAL)

 

American Literary History, 1989--. 4/yr.

Call number: PS 1 .A58

Very high quality scholarly journal. Publishes essays, commentaries, critical exchanges and reviews on American literature from the colonial period to the present. Good source for new historicism or critical theory. No subject or serial bibliographies.

 

American Literary Realism, 1870-1910, 1967--. 3/yr.

Call number: PS 1 .A4

Published by the University of New Mexico. Publishes critical essays, bibliographies, documents, notes and reviews dealing with American Realism.

 

 

*American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography, 1929--. 4/yr.

Call number: PS 1 .A6

Sponsored by MLA's American Literature Section. Each issue carries a selected, annotated bibliography of current articles on American literature in addition to 5-6 scholarly articles and a substantial book review section. Also lists selected "special" issues of other journals. Publishes occasional issues on special topics, e.g. the Sept. 1993 issue on "Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill."

 

 

American Poetry, 1983--. 3/yr.

Call number: PS 301 .A38

Covers all periods of American poetry. No serial bibliographies.

 

 

Arizona Quarterly, 1945--.

Call number: AP 2 .A7265

Publishes scholarly essays on American literature with special emphasis on contemporary theoretical approaches to both canonical and noncanonical literature. Includes book reviews but does not publish bibliographies on a regular basis.

 

 

boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture, 1972--. 3/yr.

Call number: PN 2 .B68

International in scope with some North American subject matter. Focus is on cultural studies, critical theory, and the relationship of literature to culture. Each issue publishes scholarly articles and book reviews.

 

 

CLA Journal, 4/yr.

Call number: PB5.C6

The College Language Association journal focuses exclusively on language and literature, literary criticism and book reviews, association news and reports. The CLA is the professional organization of college teachers of English and Foreign Language; it is a who's who of African-American scholars. In each June issue there is an author-title index covering each volume.

 

 

Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, 1959--. 4/yr.

Call number: PR 9100 .C25

The oldest journal on Canadian literature. Contains articles, original poetry, and tons of book reviews. No bibliographies.

 

 

College English, 1939--. Monthly from Sept.-April.

Call number: PE 1 .C6

Published by the National Council of Teachers of English, this journal "provides a forum in which scholars can..." discuss controversies in "...literature (including nonfiction), linguistics, critical theory, reading theory, rhetoric, composition, pedagogy, and professional issues." Each edition averages: three articles that have extensive works cited pages but no footnotes; a couple poems; two reviews (no footnotes here); letters to the editor about previous articles; NCTE news, announcements, calls for papers. I sense the primary function of the journal is to serve the NCTE.

 

 

College Literature 3/yr.

Published by Council of Editors of Learned Journals, This is a "journal of scholarly criticism serving the needs of college/university teachers by proving access to innovative ways of studying and teaching new bodies of literature and experiencing old literature in new ways." Authors of articles all come from big-name schools. The journal is divided into three parts: eight essays on various topics, mostly American literature; review essays in which authors critique 3-4 new books on a given topic (there are four such reviews per issue); book reviews. The last six pages in the volume are a list of Books Received.

 

 

Early American Literature, 1966--. 3/yr.

Call number: PS 185 .E15

Covers American literature through 1830. Includes high-quality articles and book reviews. No bibliographies.

 

 

Eighteenth Century Life. See entry under History (General).

 

ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 1955--. 4/yr.

Call number: PS 201 .E8

Focuses on literary, religious, philosophical, and historic aspects of the Romantic and Transcendental tradition. Each issue contains essays, source and influence studies, biographical profiles, review essays and brief critical reviews of current monographs on selected topics. No other bibliographies.

 

 

*Journal of Modern Literature, 1970--. 4/yr.

Call number: PN 2 .J65, < http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/journals/mod.html>

The journal welcomes "submissions of research-based studies of modern literature as well as critical studies based on scholarship." The journal is sectioned into 10 chapters: reference & bibliography; literary history; themes & movements; regional, national, & ethnic literature; comparative studies--two or more authors; criticism of modern literature generally; criticism of fiction; criticism of poetry; criticism of drama; criticism of film &/as literature. Each chapter lists the books, articles, and dissertations published during the quarter. The book entries are annotated with exceptionally detailed descriptions. Extensive annual annotated bibliography issue covers the year's critical publications on Modernism, 1885-1950. Includes sections on Reference and Bibliography, Literary History, Ethnic Literature, Criticism, etc.

 

 

Journal of Popular Literature, see entry under Folklore and Popular Culture

 

 

*Literary Criticism: A Monthly Listing of Studies in English and American Literature, 1983--.

Reprints the tables of contents of scholarly and literary journals (monitors about 300, of which about 60 will be covered in each issue).

 

 

*Modern Fiction Studies, 1955--. 4/yr.

Call number: PS 379 .M55

Publishes scholarly articles on 20th century literature, including American literature. Annual "Recent Books on Modern Fiction" comprises review essays on monographs in selected subjects; along with the list of books received in the same issue, provides a good sampling, if not a comprehensive list of the year's monographs on fiction, 1880-present.

 

New England Quarterly, see entry under Regional History

 

 

Nineteenth-Century Literature, 1987--. 4/yr.

Call number: PR 873 .T762

Successor to Nineteenth Century Fiction (1945-1986). Covers many issues relating to Anglo-American literature. Contains articles on major and minor authors, analyses and interpretations of 19th century works, review essays, and book reviews. "Recent Books: American Fiction" and "Recent Books: British Fiction" appear in alternate issues; each reviews recent critical works.

 

 

PMLA, 1884--. 6/yr.

Call number: PB 6 .M6

Each edition of this journal is comprised of 8-10 articles by top-notch scholars. Footnotes are one liners and works cited pages usually run to a half a page. The journal also serves to broadcast the forthcoming conferences and meetings of the MLA. Other sections in the journal include: Forum, where letters to the editor comment on previous articles; Notes & comment solicits papers and panelists for conferences; new books by university presses are advertised extensively. At the end of each year a bound volume is issued with an index of the year's articles by authors and titles. Past indexes 1-50, issued in 1935; 51-60, 1945; 51-79, 1964.

 

 

Resources for American Literary Study, 1971--.

Call number: Z 1225 .R46

Publishes scholarly articles and book reviews and occasional bibliographies and bibliographical essays.

 

 

Social Text, 1979--. 4/yr.

Call number: HN 1 .S59

Emphasizes articles on literature, culture, politics, education, and language. Very interdisciplinary. Also publishes book reviews.

 

 

South Atlantic Quarterly. see entry under American Studies

 

 

Studies in American Fiction, 1973--. 2/yr.

Call number: PS 370 .S87

Concentrates on the study and criticism of the prose fiction of the United States. Each issue contains scholarly articles, notes, and book reviews but no subject or serial bibliographies. Occasional special issues on single authors.

 

 

Studies in Canadian Literature, 1976--. 2/yr.

Call number: PR 9180 .S88

Articles in English or French. No bibliographies.

 

 

Studies in the American Renaissance, 1975--. 1/yr.

Call number: PS 201 .S86

Encompasses biographical, historical, and bibliographical articles on the literature, history, philosophy, art, and general culture of American during the period 1830-1860. Publishes some annotated bibliographies of books received and occasional subject bibliographies (e.g., on Thoreau and Music).

 

 

*Yale Journal of Criticism, see entry under Critical Theory

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